Building an ATV Bridge From Downed Trees and Making Lumber Free-Hand with a Chainsaw. #39
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- I'm always looking for ways to get rid of odd size logs leftover from previously cut trees. This gave me the opportunity to do just that while also making my daily-driver trails more passable in the wettest seasons. Since the lumber I needed to make was only going to be driven on, I opted to half most of the logs free hand with the chainsaw rather than getting out the chainsaw mill.
I've now driven over the bridge a hundred times or more and neither the four wheeler nor I have yet busted through!
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Hey Ryan, my twin brother and I are buying some land in upstate NY and you played a large part in inspiring us to do so -- thanks for your amazing content. Truly have learned so much and has given me the confidence to move forward with this dream! :)
That's fantastic! Super excited for you.
Now if you can just focus all your mental energy on making every minute and every day as fun as possible, it'll be a great experience. It's once you start getting serious about something that truly doesn't need to be taken seriously that things start to come unraveled.
(There is next to nothing that needs to be taken seriously.)
Have a blast!
@@survivingringworm2202 thanks Ryan!! Truly appreciate the advice - literally exactly what I needed to hear. It’s stressful getting ready for all this, but you’re right. Can’t take it too seriously and the most important thing is to have fun with it or what’s the point in the first place!!
Cool man.
I am buying land too in New York and have 80 foot pines I plan to take down and make some neat bridges for quads, walking, and snowmobiles...
Just watching bridge building Ideas... I thought I would need a mill but now I realize I can snap a line, chain saw it, and call it good... Thanks man.
but I have a pop-up, a 34 foot camper and a 42 foot camper.
Plan on camping on my land this winter and doing manly things...
Where in upstate ny. I’m in the Adirondack park. Congratulations on your purchase.
It needs support, but not underneath.
You need 'decking' on top that is perpendicular to the logs underneath so that it distributes the weight of your tires over all three logs on each side
Could you do a follow up and see how your bridge is holding up? This was the first video of yours that I viewed. And i must admit I've been hooked ever since! I hope the cabin is going good!
You're such an inspiring dude! I envy the simple life...it pains me that all or most unoccupied land is somehow spoken for by government or sold off for anothers profit...I'm seriously considering just staking my own small claim somewhere deep in state or national park service land,here in new Hampshire there's 500+ acres literally right in my backyard...all I want is a small cabin,don't even want a driveway,road or electric...I just might..
Good stuff, Ryan. I'm building bridges and boardwalks through my swamp, so thanks for the inspiration.
Really like this channel. Something relaxing about watching this property be developed. Nice to see someone living their best life.
Thanks Ryan. Very informative but also highly entertaining. Looking forward to the next episode. Stay safe👍🏻
Morning! I would of built a corduroy section. We did that at the hunting camp a few years ago. Worked really well!
I did that also and it will last over a century. Here some of our side roads that were built as corduroy roads over a 100 years ago are still doing awesome.
Build the corduroy and cover it with gravel to protect it from the air, weather, sun.
Take a weed propane burner and char the logs contacting the ground they'll last for a very long time .
Those footings will probably rot in a couple years I am guessing. Bricks would be my choice but I don't know how you are about buying stuff. Culvert pipe would help a lot I think. This is my first time to your channel. I think I may watch a few more.
When building anything for the first time I think of this saying... "professionals built the Titanic, and an amateur built the ark." I agree it's really satisfying to fill in a rut or a divot ;-) I had to fill in ruts left after a sprinkler system was put in and it was actually a fun thing to do strangely enough....lol What kind of snacks (in addition to crickets) do you like to eat to give you energy?
Man, those poor Titanic engineers are never going to live that down, are they? They build one crummy boat and it ruins their job prospects for centuries.
I've really gotten into peanut butter something wicked. And yesterday I caught myself dipping a string cheese stick in jalapeno nacho cheese. Not sure I'd recommend that one to the average suburbanite, but it was fairly good.
@@survivingringworm2202 Hmmm...string cheese and jalapeño cheese dip sounds awesome! Have you had a Twinkie with a slim jim in it and Texas Pete hot sauce on top? So strangely good!
@@StatueofGuyThinking I believe Ryan does have some divine inspiration 😉
That is an interesting project. Perhaps if the boards were put across the direction of the trail and not along and were supported underneath with full round logs at the direction of the trail the bridge would be even stronger and safer because the boards would be shorter that way and they would take the load of the vehicles for a shorter period of time. Also when a board breaks in this scenario the neighboring will support the wheel whereas now the wheel can fall through if it isn't fat enough. It would also had more grip on the inclines.
Most bridges use both, with the visible boards being shorter and perpendicular to the ones underneath
keep getting adds for cologne while watching this video
UA-cam you really think anyone who watches a man living alond in the woods, buys cologne.
how about an add for a chainsaw, I buy those, I guess chainsaws don't need adds though, so awesome they sell themselves
Maybe it is scented like gun oil? Deet?
Nice work on the bridge. Your channel looks to be right up my alley as for content. I'm subbed. Cheers
Please befot install.
Trench it or it will move on you and hold water and rot!
Cool channel! We built a fully enclosed 12' x 12' x 8' hunting cabin 16' up between 4 large oak trees in Upstate NY at 1400' Above Sea Level. It has 2 windows on each wall with a 3' wide walk around with shooting chairs.
I would have used the yammer to dig a cross section out of the road as if you were putting in a culvert the just bridge the gap!!
BossoftheSwamp used logs and sand. His worked out real good. It holds up pretty well and you have plenty of logs.
Boss did an awesome job! Ryan too!
That tractor !!! What is it , around 1977-78 or so ? Is it by chance 4wd ? And I love the color . Sounds just like the little Yanmar diesel in our old 24’ Monk design sloop . Made my heart do something listening to yours start right up . I didn’t even know they made those . It just says 70s all over it and I have to have one now . And yours looks to have been well cared for . Looks like it’s been in the box for 40 years . D-d-dang ! Sigh … no need to respond . Just ogling .
I think it’s a ’77. 15hp diesel. And as chance would have it, it went on the market yesterday! That’s why I had to get that bridge finished up.
Hey Ryan, why didn't you put some rubber culverts under crosswise of the bridge to carry water away?
He did say that he would like to use up some his logs for something. I think 2 8in culverts would have worked well, but culverts cost money and he would use quite a bit of gravel as well.
I built a bridge once....but I got over It 😅
That bark is old fashioned birds eye toilet paper 1 ply
another awesome project and entertaining video. Thanks for sharing!
Funny, I live in NE FL and I'm fine in the summer heat but I can't handle our mild winters down here. 95° Temps with 80% humidity and I can work outside all day. But let the temperature drop down into the upper 30's and I'm stuck inside under a blanket all day.
Guess it's what you get used to.
I didn't believe it was true, but you really do get used to a certain climate!
I moved back to Michigan several years ago from California and I swear I was cold for two years straight. Now I work on stuff in the winter without gloves on!
Hey! Where's your five co-workers standing around leaning on their shovels or taking a smoke break like on public road projects? Oh yeah, this is another fine project brought to us fans by Ringworm! Thank you Ryan!
They were just off screen. Their union said I’d have to pay time and a half if they were in the video.
@@survivingringworm2202 bahahaha! About right!
Ryan the gravel goes down to China !!! That is what Moma & Papa taught us girls!!! Missed you Ryan but had to go to bed again dreamt of the swinging bed I REALLY LIKE THAT am trying to make one for myself now!!!
Was referred here from My Self Reliance viewers. I was not disappointed. Great video!
I've heard the name but haven't watched any of their videos. Looks like I am the last one on earth to the party!
I'll have to check it out soon.
Can't believe you can hear them chomping... I love your sense of humour.
Dude your so awesome, I'm a michigander also!! I just bought a piece north of alpena to play on, keep up the great content!!!
I think this is so a car can't drive in ...
Love your vids....looking forward to more building projects!
very nice. one thing is, when the vehicles are on the bridge, the tires seem to only be making contact with 1 log at a time... meaning with weight of the wehicles are not being spread out to all the logs. if you placed horizontal boards on top of the long logs, it would be solid as a the ground itself. just a thought.
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Watching Aussie Opal miners I saw a TRENCHER > A BIG chain-saw for EARTH !! - so watch out for fir-landers - SS-STTtt !!!!
Make sure your not adding gravel into a marked DNR wetland 1800.00 fine.
Nice bridge buddy ! Been following you for a while and I Appreciate your channel
Greetings for quebec,canada !
Thanks for watching Fred!
You’d probably agree that doing work in the sun when it’s in the 80s is too hot, right?
If you plan to use this in the winter with ice and snow, fill in the center section. One slide sideways and you will be in trouble. Wouldn't take much more work. Chains on your ATV would help. If you had made it a bit wider , a log on top on both sides would keep you from sliding off. I would have used the tractor to shave off the downstream side to allow the ruts to drain. Either that or put in some culverts under your bridge using your cedar logs. I have 12 culverts, 3 causeways, and 3 bridges on my 80 acres. I also used large rock on two streams to form a solid bottom to cross. You use what you have. Get to know your local landfill operator and highway superintendent to save old CMP culverts, long steel beams, timbers, and other construction materials suitable for your trails. Bent culverts can be cut down. Better to save them from the landfill and reuse.
I hadn't thought of sliding off in the winter. That certainly might happen! I'll consider filling it the rest of the way in. But I do have some pretty aggressive chains I put on the atv for plowing.
It would be a pain to get that thing out if it fell through!
@@survivingringworm2202 I have a 4 ft high bridge 60 foot long over a creek so going off the side would be bad. I put landscape timbers along the side. My bridge is wide at the middle and slightly wider than the ATV at the ends. I have stone ramps at each end. I made a mistake putting down the deck and not leaving space for ventilation. The deck rotted partly from wet leaves..
4×4 to muddy?? Michigan! Hey there guy unless your talking two year's ago, on the to wet? Michigan is not to wet this spring!! There nothing for ground water! Midland here, mid michigan! Please don't say you've lived here forever!! Not even the u.p. got enough rain!!
Neat bridge. But I don't understand what the purpose is for. That trail can be passed by a beginner rider. These trails are nothing compared to the muskeg up here in Canada. I'm ganna have to up load some videos too I guess.
Make a rail and drive by braille.
If you drink and see double. Close one eye
Nice bridge. I with you on the heat . Thanks for sharing .
Biggest problem with burying trees is that they decompose n disappear to NADA.
Filter fabric first then gravel. Fabric n gravel float over soft spots n do not sink away
not bad at all and using fallen timber not going to waste i like your way of thinking
I thought those yellow/orange lady slippers looked familiar,we have pink lady slippers where I live in NH they're protected.
You need a water culvert, so water can run threw it. Rather than across your path > Your log holder gave me a ideal Fred Flintstone mobile. "Yabadabadoo" Use the round wood for wheels and the log down the middle with a set 7:37 now you know where i got the ideal from
Might as well be Ryan Renolds as much as you break the 4th wall lol
Oh man. Kudos to you sir for Deadpooling the comments.
Among my fav videos EVER...
Good bridge. I never knew you had a tractor. Can’t you load the heavier logs with your front end loader and some chains? You will probably need some weight on the back end. I saw how you had that trail before. Those logs probably stopped the watering from draining. Next tim just put them across the trail. Then the wateri can get through. It is also called a corduroy road. Then just top it with some gravel and your good to go. Later
You have to drink plenty of water and electrolytes to keep from getting dizzy! It's the fluid intake not the food that makes you dizzy unless you don't keep your vitamin intake balanced!
It gets over 100 here from July to early September and you get overheated within 30 minutes sitting outside, 3 minutes if you got a shovel in your hand.
As the saying goes beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The bridge looks very nice and seems absolutely functionable. As to it needing to be stronger, the way you seem to build everything is beyond what is considered strong enough by the regular people. The ideas you come up with are what is needed to accomplish the goal you set. It is to bad that other things in our lives today are not as easy. Continue to have good health and happiness my friend.
We do like to overcomplicate things don’t we! Wonder what the world would be like if everyone just make the stuff they needed with a chainsaw. If ya can’t carve it from a log, ya can’t have it.
That’ll be the extent of the laws when I’m president.
Love that word Functionable! Cabin Masters Ryan-a wicked Mainah uses it!
I feel off when the temperature gets down to 60F. lol. That's too cool for my liking.
You really need bigger rock, what you have seens like you would be putting that on the rocks.. Maybe 2"
Hello to you the fine morning! Glad your dried out some.
Old school loggers used to corduroy (sp) logging roads..... some here in alaska have been around for 90 years or so and still passable..... lay the logs across the road.... 6 foot long should be plenty build a 6 ft wide road.... you can spread some gravel over top to smoothen the ride
Always cool too see your progress
nice bridge and even if there is a failure plank you built it in such away it is easy to repair. good job!
Very true!
Need to build a Flintstones car out of logs next 😁
3rd place isn't nothing..or is it?
Not at all bad work worm. This bridge will hold. Until it one day breaks.. Fortunately, the lumber store is quite close. Thank`s a lot for sharing and we appreciate you too your videos are the perfect start to a fine Saturday.
That's one of the few guarantees in this life: that that bridge will hold up until it doesn't.
Glad you enjoyed the vid!
Your Bridge looks good aswell as doing a brilliant job... 👌
Remove. All debris. On both. Sides. And lengths. Of. Bridge.
Got to say I am Jealous of that Trailer, Those Big fat rear wheels would probably be more than I need but they are cool
Nice job. Nice mix of camera angles too.
80 degrees! LOL come on down to South Georgia in July and August! 97 degrees in the shade with a heat index of 107! We work outside starting at first light around 6:30AM and stop by Noon.
Of course the tractor started right up. It’s a Yanmar. I love mine
I cant find the episode with the hung up tree but I was watching trustin timber’s channel and he built a latter it’s one that goes to a point . He ties a rope to bottom of the log and top of his latter climbs the latter witch intern lifts the Log and pulls to check it out bud
first time you run over those with mud on your tires you will fill in those gaps between the wood... then there are leaves...
The key to working outside in the heat (for me at least) is a huge hat and long sleeves. It’s counter intuitive but hiding from the sun outweighs the warmth of additional clothing, and let’s me work into triple digits. I like Duluth’s breathable synthetic shirts, hats with a neck covering flap, and Carhartt overalls. Obviously tons of water too. Awesome project, impressive chainsaw work, very inspiring!
could have just laid two long logs in the ruts and then used slab wood across the top for decking
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Love watching a master at his craft, thank you
Why wouldnt you cut a ditch to route the water away from your path? Lot of extra work...
I would much rather work in the winter than summer. I work outside year round
When I was younger My Office could get up to 46°C in Summer and I’d cope somehow.
I’d also feel the Cold in Winter.
Now I’m older and anything above 25°C and I’m absolutely wrecked.
Now I don’t feel the Cold in Winter at all and absolutely love it.
Ryan, for safety sake do u have an escape route planned? Emerg med kit, bandages, splints etc and cellphone?? Take care. Be safe!!
Ur a good man Ry🍁🍁🍁🇨🇦
How’s the bridge holding up?
I'm curious where in the U.P are you at?
Who needs a woodmizer good job on making that lumber out of just a chainsaw. This is the first time I see your channel good job on the bridge 👍🇺🇸💯
I like this video..i may have pressed 2 unintended icons on your video by mistake when i got sleepy after a day's work..my apologies..this video is helpful for us.
it will guide us in managing the big branches we pruned from a tree in our garden. Thanks for this awesome video.
Massive improvement from where you started! Can't wait to see when you get some flooding. I'm sure you'll make improvements if needed. Great job 👍
Couple cross members underneath for each section will gain a greater distribution of weight, therefore strength, but what you did was very impressive.
Nice video!! How did you make those marks? Are you using blue chalk and a bungee cord?
Good tractor there. Can't beat a yanmar
That's the coolest bridge!
When I get on and off a quad all day long I usually just sit on one side
Nice job on the bridge. I’m about halfway through the list but you are on the right path kiddo.
i used the corduroy road method for my trails in the wash-out areas. Sand is difficult to find here so i used free wood chips from the electric company road workers. they gave me seven truck loads and i used all of it. when you build the road, you corduroy the entire wash-out then let mother nature push the water through. thats were you make the pass-over (bridge).
Did anyone notice the spider when he got the tractor started
A drain pipe or just add 3" rock the modified on top wood have taken care of that soft spot. But you wanted a Bridge .. nAn lot more work...
Bury a sturdy pipe under the trail to drain the water.
I had an area like that on my land. I dug a 1 foot wide, 2 foot deep trench across, filled with gravel #3 stone topped with 57 stone... then covered the surrounding 6 feet in either direction with stone and gravel as well. it is a permanent solution that took no engineering
Gee's who needs an Alaskan chainsaw mill?
You are living every recluses dream! Around how many acres do you have and do you sustain it with just your channel?
try #3 or #4 crushed stone clean ...
More work and you’re less likely to attract trolls living under it . Can’t wait to see the bridge with mud under it .
Oooooo! I hope it attracts trolls! Maybe I need to put up another candy machine nearby?
@@survivingringworm2202 just chainsaw up a couple of trolls but be sure to chop off their toes!
Excellent vid but please don't go all professional on us...I mean using the right screws......you will be doing designs on paper next lol
He who thinks too much wastes valuable time........you can have that one
How dare you?!
I wouldn't dream of touching paper to plan a new project. If it's highly complicated, I might scrape some dirt around with my toes, but that's only for an extreme case.
Paper... HA! Never.
@@survivingringworm2202 I'll be watching very closely for a note pad............
corduroy road. old concept.
bonjour, personnellement je ne suis pas confrontée à ce genre de situation..mais vous assurez..good job..vous gérez très bien tous les jours...bravo!...belle vidéo
Should have put gravel under the dirt
Can we get an update how this is holding up?
We put logs perpendicular on the wood roads, called corduroy roads in the old logging days. Allows water to cross the road under the logs.